These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2011-06-06,
and should be interpreted accordingly. All questions were written
by members of the Misplaced Modifiers, but have been reformatted
and may have been retyped and/or edited by me. I will reveal the
correct answers in about 3 days.
For further information, including an explanation of the """ notation
that may appear in these rounds, see my 2021-07-20 companion posting
on "Reposted Questions from the Canadian Inquisition (RQFTCI*)".
* Game 4, Round 1 -- Current Events (excerpt)
Answer these 2011 questions if you like for fun, but for no points.
1. What was the most notable 100th anniversary marked in Belfast
last week?
2. Which EU country will be legalizing divorce, the last to do so?
* Game 4, Round 2 - Literature - Sexy Science Fiction: Sexual Themes in Sci-Fi
1. In the novel "The Forever War", the hero is sent to fight in an
interstellar war. When he returns, many years have passed
at home while it's only been a short time for him, and he
goes on to command soldiers who speak a language largely
unrecognizable to him and who are exclusively homosexual.
Behind his back his troops refer to him as the "Old Queer"
because of his now-deviant heterosexuality. Name the author.
2. This author wrote in his "Eight Worlds" future history, written
in the 1970s, of a future humanity able to change gender at will.
He also featured lesbian protagonists in his Gaean trilogy --
"Titan", "Wizard" and "Demon". Name the author.
3. In his most acclaimed novel, written in 1975, Samuel R. Delany
creates characters with a wide variety of sexuality. The book
also contains some of the first explicit scenes of gay sex in
science fiction. A complex novel, it has often been compared
to Pynchon's "Gravity's Rainbow". Name the novel.
4. Ursula K. LeGuin explores a radically alternative form of
sexuality in this 1969 novel. Her aliens usually are neither
male nor female, but undergo a monthly cycle when they randomly
become one or the other gender. Name the novel.
5. Pulp sci-fi's golden age was the 1930s and '40s, when magazine
covers frequently featured scantily clad women fighting off
creepy aliens with curiously suggestive tentacles. Editors,
though, felt they had to protect their largely adolescent
male readers from any mention of sex inside the magazines.
Name the leading science fiction magazine of the era, started
by Harry Bates and later edited by John W. Campbell.
6. In "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream", this controversial author
created a post-apocalyptic world run by a computer which toys
with the 5 remaining humans. The computer changes one into an
ape with massive sexual organs and turns a virgin woman into a
nymphomaniac. This author's prodigious output also includes the
Hugo-winning "A Boy and His Dog" and "Jeffty is Five". Name him.
7. This author wrote 1953's "The Lovers", an early sci-fi short
story featuring sex as a major theme. He also penned "Strange
Relations", with a human-alien love affair. In his novel
"Flesh", a hyper-masculine man with antlers impregnates legions
of virgins to counter declining male virility. In "To Your
Scattered Bodies Go", all his characters awake naked on a
strange world. Name him.
8. Writing largely in the 1940s and '50s, this author featured
homosexual aliens in "The World Well Lost". In "Venus
Plus X", his protagonist wakes in a future where everyone is
a hermaphrodite. The same author also explored sexuality in
his novel "The Synthetic Man", and Vulcan mating rituals in the
"Star Trek" episode "Amok Time". Name him.
9. In 1972's "The Gods Themselves", his aliens have three sexes.
All three must participate for conception to occur. Name this
prolific writer.
10. This writer, known as the "dean of science fiction", was a
proponent of homosexuality, casual sex, group marriage, and
public nudity in his books such as "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress"
and "Time Enough for Love". Name him.
* Game 4, Round 3 - Canadiana Sports - Canada's Top 100 Athletes
Information in this round is from the book, "Canada's Top 100: The
Greatest Athletes of All Time", by Maggie Mooney, published in 2010.
All statistics shown are from that period. We give a clue, you
name the athlete. Spoiler: none of them is Gretzky, who was #1.
1. #4 on the Top 100 list, she's the top female. She """has won"""
6 Olympic medals: one from Salt Lake City and five from Turin.
She was the flag-bearer at the closing ceremonies in Turin.
2. He's #6 on the list. He captured Olympic gold, running 100 m
in 9.84 seconds. He """still holds""" the world record for 50 m.
3. #14 on the list, this downhill skier's aggressive style earned
her the nickname "Tiger". A """3-time""" Olympian, she captured
Olympic gold in the giant slalom at Grenoble, France, by a
margin of 2.68 seconds, one of the most decisive victories in
Olympic history.
4. #18. Canada's """greatest""" triathlete. Olympic gold in
Sidney, despite crashing his bike. Olympic silver in Beijing,
in another amazing come-from-behind performance.
5. At #23, he is the top swimmer on the list. At the Los Angeles
Olympics, he won the 200 m IM gold, and the 400 m gold the next
day. Later he became a director of the "Own the Podium" program.
6. At #20 on the list, Canada's top female amateur golfer of all
time dominated women's amateur golf in the 1950s and '60s, and
"""remains""" the only golfer to win the Canadian, US, British,
and Australian amateur championships. In 2003, she became
the *oldest* player to win the USGA senior championship title,
at age 69.
7. He is #5 on the list. He did it all: he was a champion in
wrestling, boxing, baseball, rugby, football, lacrosse,
and hockey. Each year, Canada's male athlete of the year
"""receives""" an award named after this man. His nickname was
"Big Train".
8. He is #51 on the list. This golfer, known as the "King of
Swing" for his perfect technique, went pro in 1958 and played
the professional circuit for 11 years, capturing 8 tournament
victories and coming one stroke away from the 1969 Masters.
9. He is #24 on the list. He took silver in speed skating,
behind Eric Heiden, in the 1980 Olympics. He came back from a
shattered ankle to win gold in the 1000 m at Sarajevo in 1984,
and laid the foundation for Canada's speed-skating empire.
10. This sprinter is #21 on the list. At the Amsterdam Olympics
of 1928, he won double gold in the 100 m and 200 m events, the
first non-American to do so. He won 21 of his next 22 races
and set a world 100 m record of 10.3 seconds, before retiring
in 1930.
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